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UNITED STATES PATENT Drains.

FRANCIS VAN DUZER, OF HAVANA, NEW YORK.

WALL-PAPER EXHIBITOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,654, dated January11, 1881.

Application filed May 4, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS VAN DUZER, of Havana, in the county ofSchuyler and State of New York, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Wall Paper Exhibitors and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a side View of myinvention. Fig. 2 is a perspective detail thereof. Fig. 3 is a plan viewof the same. Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7,8, and 9 are details, and Fig. 10 is aperspective view.

This invention has relation to improvements in means for exhibitingsamples of wall-paper, carpets, and other fabrics.

The nature of the invention consists in an exhibitor constructed andoperating in the manner substantially as hereinafter set forth.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates a stand composed,essentially, of four legs, a, united at their upper ends to a table, b,and prevented from spreading by means of the braces 0.

B indicates a vertical shaft extending centrally through the platformZ), and having its lower bearings in a transverse plate, a, connectingthe braces c. This shaft carries the turn-table O, which bears upon theplatform I) and turns readily thereon.

Extending out radially from the table 0 are the metallic arms D, usuallyfour in number and of equal length, which arms are overhung by abracket, D, the free end of which is parallel with the extreme outer endof the arms D and directly over the same. The brackets D are connectedtogether by the braces E, extending across each other at right angles,thus constituting a truss-frame with the arms and brackets aforesaid.

F F indicate tubular metallic rods, having a longitudinal slot, 6,extending from one end nearly to a circular centrally perforated plate,(I, on its other end. These plates are placed between the arms D andbrackets D,

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and secured'in place by means of a pin, f, passing through said bracketsand arms and the plates d aforesaid, as shown in Fig. 4. The rods F areone above the other, and are kept apart by means of washers g g, strungupon the said pins f, as shown. The washers g are simple flat rings, andthey simply aid in separating the disks (1; but the washers g not onlyhave that function, but also serve as bearings for these disks, beingprevented from rotating by means of a bar, h, extending from the bracketto the arm and engaging a notched project-ion, 41, (shown in Fig. 6,) onthe edge of the said washers. The hollow of the rods F is sufficientlylarge to admit a slender bar, Gr, (shown in Fig. 5,) of correspondingform, over which the samples are laid and introduced along therewithinto the rod, the said samples depending through the slot. Usually twosamples of difierent kinds of paper or goods are joined togetherat'their edges, laid over the bars, and passed into the supporting-rodsF, as aforesaid. There may be any number of these rods F, eachexhibiting two samples,- and, being independent of each other, they maybe swung aside, one after the other, upon the pins f, thus bringing thesamples successively into view in a very convenient manner. The rods areattached to their respective disks d at different points of theperimeter-s of the said disks. Thus the upper rod is about tangential toits disk, as shown in Fig. 7. The next ap proaches a radial positionrelative to its disk, as shown in Fig. 8. The third is radial, as shownin Fig. 9, the fourth to the other side of the radial position, and soon, by which means the samples hang free of each other, and are lessliable to break or become defaced by dust.

The forms of stand and turn-table above described are very effective forthe purposes set forth; but ldo not confine myself to their preciseconstruction, there being many wellknown descriptions of rotary standswhich 1 may adopt and use in substitution.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, in a goods-exhibitor, with a rotarystand and itsprojecting arms D and In testimony that I claim the above I haveoverhanging brackets D, connected by brace hereunto subscribed my namein the presence [o h, of the exhibiting-arms F, having the cen of twowitnesses. trally-perforated disks d at one end, the bearing and spacingwashers g g, the former en- FRANCIS VAN DUZER' gaged with the brace h,and a rod 01' pin, f, Witnesses: passing down through the brackets,disks, CHAS. R. WATKINS,

Washers, and arms, substantially as specified. ANDREW JABBITT.

